Word: surer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force the Arabs to come to their own terms. It is a hubris that they have earned by successive conquests of arms, and it envisions the downfall of Nasser, long their most implacable enemy, as part of the final process. It may be a shortsighted view: there is no surer way to a lasting truce than forging it with the strongest of one's opponents...
...knuckles take over. He has thoughtfully managed Townrow's arrival to coincide with the Suez crisis of 1956. His first night in Port Said, Townrow is robbed of all his clothes, beaten up and left in the desert. After that he moves in a "neverending daze," not much surer of who he is than everybody else...
...named Sigi Weissenberg, who had made his U.S. debut playing Chopin with the New York Philharmonic 20 years earlier. Alexis even had some of Sigi's pianistic traits-triphammer virtuosity, brilliant tone, a briskly commanding approach to a score-but they were tempered with subtler shading and a surer sense of structure...
...contortions seemed to communicate respect for the music rather than genuine feeling. Due possibly to a certain degree of nervousness, Buswell also had a surprising number of lapses of bow control, with a tendency toward a glassy tone whenever he wanted to play softly. On the surer grounds of the more aggressive rapid movements, his playing was marred only by his arbitrary choices of moment for echo effects, a habit detrimental to the continuity of Bach's long, carefully contoured phrases...
...term--perhaps it was that same sense of the dramatic that allowed him to be photographed, during last week's cold weather, sitting by a cot in his City Hall office prepared to stay the night answering phone calls from freezing citizens. Had he waited until he had a surer grasp on his office. White probably could have devised a plan to remove McNamera. It's doubtful that he can do it now: McNamera's friends are on guard. Indeed one White insider says, "It looks to me like McNamera will finish out the four-year term [former Mayor] Collins...